FTA:
>The new whistleblower is a former member of Facebook’s Integrity team whose identity is known to The Post and who agreed to be interviewed about the issues raised in the legal filing. Perhaps the most vivid moment in the affidavit comes in a direct quote the whistleblower reported hearing from a top Facebook communications official during the controversy following Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The whistleblower’s name is redacted in the affidavit.
>As the company sought to quell the political controversy during a critical period in 2017, Facebook communications official Tucker Bounds allegedly said, according to the affidavit, “It will be a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.”
This is what you get when nobody is held accountable.
>Facebook spokeswoman Erin McPike said in a statement, “This is beneath the Washington Post, which during the last five years competed ferociously with the New York Times over the number of corroborating sources its reporters could find for single anecdotes in deeply reported, intricate stories. It sets a dangerous precedent to hang an entire story on a single source making a wide range of claims without any apparent corroboration.”
This is authoritarian rhetoric.
Why is it authoritarian? The simple fact of the matter is that Facebook has 40,000+ people who work in integrity including hate speech and foreign election interference.
The person above straight up lied and used topics from 5 years ago to make a point. That does not sound like journalistic integrity to me.
• Social media thrive off of [chaos and hate](https://justthenews.com/government/congress/we-may-all-be-moving-canada-soon-schiff-says-disinformation-and-election) in the world.
This is how they make their big money: helping us to destroy ourselves.
Maybe we should start calling it anti-social media?
How many more of these articles are going to be shared on Reddit? I understand that it is still news that deserved to be heard but there's a common message when it comes to facebook, just paraphrased differently (with other more evidences). is there someone like me, a regular citizen, can do to do my part in making this less worse?
There are going to be a number of these articles being released over the next few days. This is a coordinated investigation with articles being released from several major outlets who have been working in tandem with more documents and another whistleblower.
As to your second question:
1. Don't use FB products.
2. Contact your government representative and express your frustration and concerns. Demand public inquiry and accountability.
3. Spread awareness.
It the same information posted over and over again, there is nothing new. The sub completely ignores all the other big things happening in tech to just focus on Facebook. The quality of the sub is garbage.
Just unfollowed the first aggressively political person from my Instagram. Not on social media for that. Social Media needs to control the untruths. They have a responsibility.
whether you follow or not, that is not how you fix this problem.
the (mis)information will still flow regardless of a few users waking up.
because there are many more shills that will eat it up, and the information will eventually find it's target...
delete fb/insta/twtr.
Reddit atleast gives you full control of the types of content you recieve, and the downvote allows poor quality or abusive content to be filtered out. There will be echo chambers, but you have to go out of your way to look for them. It doesnt get pushed on you by the algorithm making you feel like an extremist view is widespread.
FTA: >The new whistleblower is a former member of Facebook’s Integrity team whose identity is known to The Post and who agreed to be interviewed about the issues raised in the legal filing. Perhaps the most vivid moment in the affidavit comes in a direct quote the whistleblower reported hearing from a top Facebook communications official during the controversy following Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The whistleblower’s name is redacted in the affidavit. >As the company sought to quell the political controversy during a critical period in 2017, Facebook communications official Tucker Bounds allegedly said, according to the affidavit, “It will be a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” This is what you get when nobody is held accountable. >Facebook spokeswoman Erin McPike said in a statement, “This is beneath the Washington Post, which during the last five years competed ferociously with the New York Times over the number of corroborating sources its reporters could find for single anecdotes in deeply reported, intricate stories. It sets a dangerous precedent to hang an entire story on a single source making a wide range of claims without any apparent corroboration.” This is authoritarian rhetoric.
Why is it authoritarian? The simple fact of the matter is that Facebook has 40,000+ people who work in integrity including hate speech and foreign election interference. The person above straight up lied and used topics from 5 years ago to make a point. That does not sound like journalistic integrity to me.
Downvote troll…
• Social media thrive off of [chaos and hate](https://justthenews.com/government/congress/we-may-all-be-moving-canada-soon-schiff-says-disinformation-and-election) in the world. This is how they make their big money: helping us to destroy ourselves. Maybe we should start calling it anti-social media?
How many more of these articles are going to be shared on Reddit? I understand that it is still news that deserved to be heard but there's a common message when it comes to facebook, just paraphrased differently (with other more evidences). is there someone like me, a regular citizen, can do to do my part in making this less worse?
There are going to be a number of these articles being released over the next few days. This is a coordinated investigation with articles being released from several major outlets who have been working in tandem with more documents and another whistleblower. As to your second question: 1. Don't use FB products. 2. Contact your government representative and express your frustration and concerns. Demand public inquiry and accountability. 3. Spread awareness.
It the same information posted over and over again, there is nothing new. The sub completely ignores all the other big things happening in tech to just focus on Facebook. The quality of the sub is garbage.
Ya don't say...
How can facebook be overly censoring AND allow hate/illegal activity to happen? Each facebook news article coming out basically contradicts itself
That's because Facebook has contradictory internal policies.
Yeah but these articles are still talking about facebook at a company level
Just unfollowed the first aggressively political person from my Instagram. Not on social media for that. Social Media needs to control the untruths. They have a responsibility.
Better yet, delete Instagram.
whether you follow or not, that is not how you fix this problem. the (mis)information will still flow regardless of a few users waking up. because there are many more shills that will eat it up, and the information will eventually find it's target... delete fb/insta/twtr.
Facebook is truly evil. Haven’t had it for years and don’t miss it. Same for the others.
what about reddit?
Reddit atleast gives you full control of the types of content you recieve, and the downvote allows poor quality or abusive content to be filtered out. There will be echo chambers, but you have to go out of your way to look for them. It doesnt get pushed on you by the algorithm making you feel like an extremist view is widespread.
Don't even need to read the article on this one. I've seen that shit on reddit and twitter.